CS4 Production Pro installation with Final Cut on same drive (mac)

Can the CS4 suite be installed and coexist with Final Cut Suite (not Final Cut X) on the same hard drive with mac os? Do not plan to open FCS apps while I am working on a project in CS4. Just want to see if I like the CS4 suite to make the transition from Final Cut Suite.
Will there be conflicts, bottlenecks, etc.
Thanks in advance.

no, I know that final cut pro 4 wont run on the macbook pro. I am wondering about the media files, capture scartch, quicktime etc. If I have final cut pro 5 on the macbook pro will it recognise those files and update them? Not the application itself but the files from the media created.
Basically I have projects I made in final cut 4 on the old system, that I want to work on in final cut 5 on the mac book pro. How do I do that?
sorry for being unclear.

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Hi,
you need to have crossgrade to FCS 5.1 to run it on Intel Mac, but I think is too late to do a crossgrade - the promotion was valid up to 17 or 19 of March.
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Russ
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I just went through this and it appears that my Focusrite Saffire was the culprit. I connected all the outputs on the focusrite according to the way the jacsk on the back were labeled and then set up the multichannel speaker setup to match. Then I went into STP, created a pink noise clip and panned it around, the LFE, center and rears were not in the right place.
I reconnected the hardware to match the 5.1 pan pot in STP then changed the multichannel speaker setup to match. Everything appears to be correct now but I would have loved to have been able to just assigned the output busses to correct outputs in the saffire.
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